White House spin on equal pay so inept, even CNN mocks Carney

People who live in White Houses shouldn’t throw stones.

With Democrats beating the tired drum of “paycheck fairness,” devoting a day of staged media hype to push the tale that somehow the Obama White House and Senate Democrats are the champions of women’s rights in the United States, Republican spokeswomen and even the mainstream media are having no problem pointing out the hypocrisy.

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Exhibit A was White House spokesman Jay Carney’s lame attempt at doublespeak on the issue on Monday, when he fielded a question about disparity in pay between men and women on the White House payroll while criticizing similar difference in the private sector.

Not even CNN was buying it. Check out this video.

That John King line, “that’s the best you got?” was priceless. And Twitter reaction to Carney’s statement was equally disbelieving.

Republicans hit back Tuesday with a statement released by the Republican National Committee and the party’s national senate and national congressional committees.

There’s a disparity not because female engineers are making less than male engineers at the same company with comparable experience. The disparity exists because a female social worker makes less than a male engineer—just as a female engineer would out-earn a male social worker. The difference isn’t because of their genders; it’s because of their jobs. …

When you use the similar methodology to evaluate White House salaries, it turns out that the median pay for women in the Obama White House is 88 cents for every dollar a man makes. When presented with this information, the White House says it’s not a fair calculation. You have to compare people in equal positions, they say.

Exactly! But their “77 cents” statistic doesn’t do that. When you compare unequal work, of course you’ll come up with a statistic that shows unequal pay.

That’s called logic — but that’s never been a lib strongpoint, as Twitter users point out.

But enough with the logic.

And be careful with those stones.

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Joe Saunders

Joe Saunders, a 25-year newspaper veteran, is a staff writer and editor for BizPac Review who lives in Tallahassee and covers capital and Florida politics. Email Joe at jpjsaunders@gmail.com.
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  • SusieQ

    In steps Dick Durbin, championing the cause today on the senate floor when he pays his women staff members $11,000 less than male counter parts. The white house is also guilty. Wonder if before mentioned ever heard of stones and glass house?

    • curmudgeon

      Wouldn’t it be refreshing if even one democRAT in the Obama administration along with his cronies in the Congress were honest? Carney is merely his official liar parroting the lies being emitted from the White House!

      • SusieQ

        We’ll never get that ahhhh that’s nice factor … these democrats will jump off the cliff right after the Obama bunch, nice purge I think.

  • Larry Miller

    Women working for ‘Democrat’(Socialist) Governors are also paid less than men

  • George Jones

    I think the point of this is that everyone is guilty of under paying women . The white house is not trying to hide that fact , what the President is trying to do is change that and get women the equal pay that they deserve . It’s very easy to see that the Republicans are doing nothing to try and help our country move forward all they do is complain and make excuses . We have the worse congress right now than we have ever had in American history.

    • Eric Stegner

      What a crock of crap. When the white house equalizes its pay, then it might have some credibility. Until it practices what it preaches, the white house needs to shut up.

      • TrentMax

        Yeah. When Obongo is making the same salary as his female housekeeper, he can talk.

        • jtak101

          The housekeeper actually does her job….by that standard, she should be making 300 times what odumbo hauls in.

    • TrentMax

      No, dufus, no one is guilty of under paying women. Women do less work and produce less value in the business world and thus make less money. And, really, they don’t need to in many cases. Most women can easily find a man to pay for their lives, even the nasty feminist sluts of today can find some beta dude to pay up.

      • Today22011

        Your reasoning is false. Truth is many females are supporting households due to the eradication of the US manufacturing base & pushing males out of work force and into long-term unemployment.

      • George Jones

        It’s very easy to see that you are not a very bright person , making comments like this shows that you are a pig and have no respect for women . Any comment or opinion you have means nothing , you should never pass up a good chance to ( shut up ) …..

        • Beeblebrocs

          Hey George. It’s against the law to pay a woman less if she has the same experience, skills, and job description. If you are unaware of this then maybe you should take your own advice.

          If a woman has a case that she is not getting paid equal pay for equal work then she can bring it under CURRENT law.

          Obama is grandstanding as are you. This is a diversion to get the drones to think about something other than the disaster that is Obamacare, a law that has caused more women to outright lose their jobs than any other policy in American history.

          Obama, by his policy actions, hates women. This is not debatable.

          • rfrichey

            Bee, That is how muslims treat women.

        • Well Done

          George, calling a person a pig and telling them to shut up only makes it plain how extremist the “equal pay” liars are. You’re a woman, aren’t you? And a fairly inept Democrat, at that. There is no inequality when you compare apples to apples, sweety.

        • TrentMax

          I don’t hate women. I love women. But they do produce less value in the business world, complain more and generally cause problems. Plus, many are unapologetic sluts thanks to “sex positive” feminism.

    • Russell Smith

      Your not seeing the point that is being made here. You cannot do different jobs, and make the same pay for them. Different jobs always require different pay. If your job requires more skill you get more pay, be it man or woman. You dont get equal pay across the board for every job that is done no matter the gender, as what Obama is taking. He is just disguising this as another ploy to spread the wealth around and destroy businesses. His OWN White House IS GUILTY of the very thing he is accusing others of doing, and those women ARE doing the same jobs as the men. That is gender discrimination based on pay, and HE is doing it.

      • babbott

        Russell, the liberals understand that, but they don’t want to discuss that because it doesn’t provide the emotional knee-jerk they are wanting. This is all another attempt to deflect attention away from what Obama and the Democrats are doing and take attention away from the Democrat debacle known as Obamacare.

    • MobileMarine

      If Obama was serious about this instead of pandering for votes, he would start with implementing this in the White House.

    • Memphis Viking

      Here’s a dose of logic to irritate the liberals. If it were true that women make 77% of what men make for the same work, then every company everywhere would only hire women and cut 23% of their payroll costs.

      • Steve Harmon

        Perfect way to look at it, thank you Memphis.

    • Steve Harmon

      So you’re saying that a company of, say, accountants will pay a woman with 5 years experience less than a man with 5 years experience? Pull your head out of ….. and prove it. Keep in mind that that’s already illegal. Stop believing Obama-bin-Lyin’. Prove your assertions to yourself, you’ll see a completely different world out there, or stay blindly ignorant of the truth, sup 2 u.

    • Well Done

      No, George. Did you even read the article? The point is the choice of jobs women make. The President is full of it. This “equal pay” noise is a dodge. This has nothing to do with “moving forward”. That’s just a catch phrase.

  • tom2

    More communism from the radical communist in charge. We’ve known about this sentiment since his days in the Chicago Socialist Party. Little is known about his education because he has yet to release his transcripts, let alone his applications and funding sources. Don’t be distracted from the primary scandals: ObamaCare, IRS, Benghazi, Fast & Furious, foreign policy, weak military and the federal debt.

  • RedDog

    Don’t worry the presses new found diligence of the Democrats will end well before the election and they be back on the reservation.

  • carolskey

    I’ve been curious how the wife of a liberal muslim who touts “war on women” talking points tolerates the misogyny of her husband…don’t his feelings apply to her equally?

    God please save America from these blatant liars!

    • curmudgeon

      Well stated!

  • JJBuck

    Only the stupid people believe anything these guys say any more…and those are the very LIVs that elected these fools, that’s why we have sound byte lies virtually every day. Just stare into the camera and say whatever you WANT to be true (as opposed to what IS true), and the sheep will believe it and follow..utterly pathetic.

  • Doug

    There’s that Common Core math again.

    • sputnik1

      Those silly libs and their fuzzy math. Thank God there’s still those of us who are old school and can point out the discrepancies. Unfortunately if we don’t home school or eradicate Communist Core, generations from now will fall for these spin tactics, hook, line and sinker.

  • Jeff Simon

    It must be a sign of the Apocalypse that SOME liberals are pulling their heads out of their butts and realizing what naive simpletons thry look like to the rest of us.

    Then there are the HARDCORE retards like the Liberals who post here….
    Cannot keep them from going FULL Retard full time. Like this guy:

    “Liberals have made this country the world superpower that it is, dragging protesting Conservatives along the whole way.” — Stan H.

    They ACTUALLY believe the bullsh!t that they spin. Well, not exactly. They think that WE are so stupid that we believe their bullsh!t. And if we’re THAT stupid we deserve whatever we get.

    • Memphis Viking

      The truth is the average liberal voter is the one stupid enough to believe that garbage, that’s why the progressives spew it. The ones in charge are smart enough to know we won’t buy it, they just want to keep their base on the plantation.

  • antiliberalcryptonite

    The Antichirst-In-Chief and everyone around him speaks with forked tongue. Double-speak and deception are all they know how to do. 0bammy learned it from his daddy, the devil. Truth spoken in their presence is like holy water thrown on a vampire, it burns and scalds them. They absolutely hate the truth or any light shining on their lies.